Need help automating a few settings in Windows 7

[clivebuckwheat]

Hi

I was wondering if someone could help me automated a few setting that are driving me nuts.

1. Turn on Autoadminlogon via the registry or cmd line?

2. How can I make the language bar always docked on the taskbar, it always is floating on the desktop?

3. Ignore the "What tyoe of network is this. work, home, public. How do disable this notification?

[Tripredacus]

I know 1 and 3 can be done via an unattend file, either during first install or from sysprep.

Both in oobeSystem pass and Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component:

1. NetworkLocation (OOBE)

2. AutoLogon

[clivebuckwheat]

Thank you.

So Autologon, in the sysprep.xml is the same as AutoAdmin login, when you use control userpasswords2 and select a user from the list to Autologin with?.

I am confused because it doesn't use the same terminology?.

If you could shed some light on this conundrum for me I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks as always you been a great assistance to me.

I'd like to AutoAdminLogon to be infinite is the possible with the sysprep.xml file?

Edited August 17, 2010 by clivebuckwheat

[Tripredacus]

I don't think there is a limit to the logons. When I set a user account to use AutoLogon, the OS logs in with that account. Even after you reboot or even days later. I think it just saves that setting. Indeed it is likely the same as AutoAdminLogon in XP. But remember that terminology in XP is from the registry. I do not have any experience in making unattend files for XP, so I do not know if AutoLogon is a carry over from that or not.

I've never used the controlpasswords2 option to set an autologon with XP, only through the registry.

[uid0]

I don't think there is a limit to the logons.

I make it 2^32-1, at least for the administrator account. Not quite infinite, but pretty close

        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <AutoLogon>
                <Password>
                    <Value>blah</Value>
                    <PlainText>false</PlainText>
                </Password>
                <Enabled>true</Enabled>
                <LogonCount>4294967295</LogonCount>
                <Username>Administrator</Username>
            </AutoLogon>
            <RegisteredOwner />
            <RegisteredOrganization />
            <ComputerName>seven</ComputerName>
            <ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
        </component>

[Tripredacus]

I am going to have to test this out. I'm currently working on a 2008 SSE image and the logon count is 10. I'll reboot it a bunch of times to see if it eventually prompts for credentials.

[cluberti]

I guess it all depends - if you have a user account that is not the local admin and the admin account is disabled during setup (the default), it will automatically log on with the second account anyway (as there are no other accounts to choose from on the welcome screen) in a non-domain environment.

[Tripredacus]

Wow good thing you brought up this question. I'm going to have to change my unattend files now to this crazy number you use. 10 is definately not enough.